socially mobile

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Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Some reestablished themselves outside of the inner city, following their original White clients as they became more socially mobile.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022

Two-thirds of the most socially mobile, who had climbed the ladder from deprived backgrounds into high-status professions, were living near to their home towns.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2020

On one end of the spectrum, Kwong identified the Western-educated, socially mobile, code-switching “uptown Chinese”; on the other end were the non-English-speaking, blue-collar “downtown Chinese.”

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017

Mum and Dad came from working-class backgrounds, but were socially mobile, aspirant.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2015